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Home My WebLink Abouthome-together-2026-year-1-update-050923-final-appendix-c21 Home Together 2026 — Year 1 Progress Update FY21–22 System Inventory The Home Together 2026 Community Plan identifies the need for more than 24,000 housing opportunities across a range of program types to meet existing and anticipated future need by 2026. This range of housing is a combination of new short and long-term subsidy slots and permanent housing units. The Plan also calls for a short-term surge in shelter availability while the system is simultaneously growing its inventory of permanent housing interventions to reduce unsheltered homelessness.1 The following table shows the addition of different inventory types to the homelessness response system in FY21–22, and how current inventory compares to the targets set for this first year of the Home Together Plan. A significant portion of the more than 800 PSH units added in FY21–22 are site-based housing units funded by Alameda County’s Measure A1, an Affordable Housing General Obligation Bond which provides funding for the creation of affordable housing, including units dedicated to people experiencing homelessness. Rental subsidies comprise nearly 1,500 of the total stock of PSH inventory in the system. 1 Detail about housing and shelter inventory needs in the Home Together 2026 Community Plan can be found at https://homelessness.acgov.org/ reports.page?#hometogether. Baseline Inventory (FY20–21) FY21–22 Inventory FY21–22 Home Together Target % of FY21–22 Target Achieved Housing Problem Solving/Rapid Resolution 56 574 139 413% Crisis Response (Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing, Safe Haven)1,785 3,343 2,759 121% Transitional Housing for Youth 153 116 104 112% Rapid Re-Housing 535 1,112 1,176 95% Supportive Housing (PSH)a 3,215 4,028 4,307 94% Dedicated Affordable Housing 0 495b 1,571 32% Shallow Subsidy 0 57 826 7% TOTAL 5,744 9,725 10,882 89% a)Supportive housing (PSH) includes Supportive Housing for older/frail adults. b) 488 of the 495 Dedicated Affordable Housing units added in Year 1 are Federal Emergency Housing Vouchers (awarded to Public Housing Authorities in Alameda County), which may not be reissued or transferred once out of use by the original recipient. Sources: 2022 Alameda County Housing Inventory Count; Alameda County Office of Homeless Care and Coordination and City Homeless Departments. FY21–22 Homelessness Response System Inventory Appendix C 22 Home Together 2026 — Year 1 Progress Update According to the data about FY21–22 funding awards, an estimated 52% of PSH tenant-based rental subsidies and services are being funded with nonrecurring (one-time) sources, requiring that funding replacements are identified in future years to ensure that these subsidies and services are able to continue to house people that have exited homelessness. While there were additions to Dedicated Affordable housing and Shallow Subsidy program models in FY21–22, the expansion of these inventory types was well under the targets for the first year of the Home Together Plan. It should also be noted that 488 of the 495 Dedicated Affordable units added in FY21–22 were Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV), a type of housing subsidy that is limited to use by one recipient, and that is not able to be reissued to another person in need of housing. This means that, over time, as EHVs are no longer in use by their original recipients, this source of Dedicated Affordable inventory will decrease. Because Dedicated Affordable housing and Shallow Subsidy programs do not yet have an established funding source, they will require new sources of funding in order to develop. Funding for these program types was considered in the 2021 Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design report to be particularly critical to ending homelessness for Black/African American and Native American adults in Alameda County, who encounter the greatest barriers to housing, are vastly over- represented among those who experience homelessness, and disproportionately experience multiple episodes of homelessness. Looking forward, there are more than 1,800 additional PSH units that have been funded and are anticipated to be occupied/ leased in the second and third years of the implementation of the Home Together Plan. For shelter and transitional housing, the Home Together Plan suggests a short-term surge in crisis response inventory in the first two years of the Plan in order to immediately reduce unsheltered homelessness. If this surge is possible, and resources to increase permanent housing inventory simultaneously increase, the need for shelter inventory would decrease by the third year of the Plan (as temporary shelter units begin to either transition into permanent housing models or are taken offline if such conversion isn’t possible). It is important to emphasize that a decline in need for shelter will come only when housing is available for people to exit into, and when the population of unsheltered homeless people begins to decline. 23 Home Together 2026 — Year 1 Progress Update Inventory Investments for Special Populations Transition age youth (ages 18–24) The Home Together Plan includes targets for transitional housing inventory that is dedicated for youth. For FY21–22 this target is 100 units and in FY22–23 the target is 120 units. Projects that will support efforts towards these goals and for broader support of youth experiencing homelessness include: • Through the $6.7 million Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project award, 40 beds of Rapid Re-Housing and 10 units of transitional housing for youth will be coming online in FY23–24 of the Plan. • Up to 30 shelter beds for transition age youth will be coming online in Mid-County, estimated in late Spring/early Summer 2023. • Funding from the State’s Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grants are contributing to overall increased investments for programs serving youth experiencing homelessness. Older adults The Home Together Plan includes targets for PSH inventory for older/ frail adults. The target for FY21–22 is 520 units and in FY22–23 it is 1,090 units. • 36 of the anticipated PSH units slated to be occupied in FY22–23 of the Plan will be designated for older adults, and an additional 170 units of PSH units will be available for older adults in FY23–24. People impacted by criminal justice system involvement During FY21–22, the Alameda County Department of Probation added 196 new units of transitional housing for the re-entry population who are coming directly from prison or jail and lack housing. Homelessness Response System Inventory by Household Type Households with Only Adults Inventory Type Baseline (FY20–21)FY21–22 Goal FY21–22 Actual % of FY21–22 Goal Achieved Housing Problem Solving/Rapid Resolution 53 130 519 399% Crisis Response (ES, TH, SH)1,648 2,562 2,842 111% Transitional Housing for Youth 153 104 116 112% Rapid Re-Housing 427 1,120 952 85% Supportive Housing (PSH)a 2,736 3,872 3,525 91% Dedicated Affordable Housing 0 1,459 488 33% Shallow Subsidy 0 677 57 8% TOTAL 5,017 9,924 8,499 86% a) Supportive housing (PSH) includes Supportive Housing for Seniors. Sources: • Alameda County, Housing and Community Development Department. (2022). 2022 Housing Inventory Count (February 2022 version) [Data Set]. [Unpublished raw data]. Retrieved Aug 26, 2022. Homeless Management Information System. • Alameda County, Office of Homeless Care & Coordination. (2022). 2022 Housing Inventory Count (June 2022 version) [Data Set]. [Unpublished raw data]. Retrieved Oct 18, 2022. Homeless Management Information System. • Additional inventory data from Alameda County and City Homeless Departments within Alameda County. 24 Home Together 2026 — Year 1 Progress Update Pipeline/Future Inventory — Households with Only Adults Pipeline/Future Inventory — Households with Adults and Children Inventory Type FY22–23 FY23–24 Transitional Housing for Youth 10 Crisis Response (ES, TH, SH)181 – 180b Rapid Re-Housing 6 40 Supportive Housing (PSH)a 522 918 Inventory Type FY22–23 FY23–24 PSH 14 347 a) Supportive housing (PSH) includes Supportive Housing for Seniors. b) Reduction in shelter units in FY23–24 indicates transition of temporary shelter units to PSH. Source: Alameda County Office of Homeless Care and Coordination Housing Services Division and data provided by City Homeless Departments. [Unpublished raw data]. Retrieved Oct 18, 2022. Homeless Management Information System. Source: Alameda County Office of Homeless Care and Coordination Housing Services Division and data provided by City Homeless Departments. Households with Adults and Minor Children Inventory Type Baseline (FY20–21) FY21–22 Goal FY21–22 Actual % of FY21–22 Goal Achieved Housing Problem Solving/Rapid Resolution 3 9 55 611% Crisis Response (ES, TH, SH)137 197 501 254% Rapid Re-Housing 108 56 160 286% Supportive Housing (PSH)479 435 503 116% Dedicated Affordable Housing 0 112 7 6% Shallow Subsidy 0 149 0 0% TOTAL 727 958 1,171 122% Sources: • Alameda County, Housing and Community Development Department. (2022). 2022 Housing Inventory Count (February 2022 version) [Data Set]. [Unpublished raw data]. Retrieved Aug 26, 2022. Homeless Management Information System. • Alameda County, Office of Homeless Care & Coordination. (2022). 2022 Housing Inventory Count (June 2022 version) [Data Set]. [Unpublished raw data]. Retrieved Oct 18, 2022. Homeless Management Information System. • Additional inventory data from Alameda County and City Homeless Departments within Alameda County.